The second Harbingers animated short is here: The Story of Khadgar. Last week at SDCC, the Gul'dan animated short was revealed. In this short, Khadgar journeys back to Karazhan after the defeat of Archimonde, hoping to find something new to help him battle the Legion...and runs into a familiar face.

The next part of the story will take place in game before launch; if you want to be spoiled now, check out our beta video of this questline:

Motion Sickness Update

Kaivax

Thanks for everyone’s reports so far. We’ve been able to use them to isolate a few more potential sources of motion sickness, and are currently working on sending out a small hotfix patch that will hopefully address at least some of them. We wanted to give a quick heads up on what we’re changing.

For starters, we were able to identify some potential issues with how flying mounts are behaving differently in patch 7.0.3 compared to 6.2.4 that we believe will help some players. Once this hotfix is live, flying mounts will no longer bank/lean to the sides when rotating in place, and the extent to which they lean when turning while in motion will be lowered back to how it was in patch 6.2.4. Additionally, we’re fixing an issue that was causing the camera to “pop” when landing or taking off on a flying mount.

We also identified and fixed some bugs that were causing some fairly extreme issues with the camera while the player is considered by the game to be in a “vehicle.” Because of how that tech is used, this includes several situations that might not obviously seem like you’re in a vehicle, such as the later parts of the Al’Akir encounter.

Finally, we received a surprising number of reports from players that indicated they had somehow unknowingly activated “Action Cam.” For those who are unfamiliar, Action Cam is an experimental alternate form of camera control that is currently unfinished and not quite ready for the general public. It had become available through a console command in the Legion beta, but since it doesn’t give any unfair gameplay advantages and (so we thought) had to be expressly activated by the player, we’d left it accessible through that command.

However, it has become clear that more than a few players have somehow turned it on without knowing, and it’s a major cause of motion sickness for those players. So, we’re going to disable it entirely for now, and plan to bring it back in a future patch once we’ve sorted out all the motion sickness issues and given it a little bit more polish.

These fixes will be active on the PTR and Beta realms for testing as soon as possible, and if all goes well, we plan to apply them to live realms on Monday, August 1. Once they’re live, please do continue to report areas of the game or activities in which you’re finding yourself feeling unwell. Videos in particular are extremely helpful, as they allow us to see exactly what the camera is doing at the time. We’re continuing to put our highest priority on resolving these issues and getting you back in the game without having to worry about motion sickness.

If you are unfamiliar with the Action Camera, here is a look at how it changes the view:

Group Loot Clarifications

Watcher

We used Group Loot again in our raid last night and it is really getting frustrating. We are consistently having people that arent able to roll need on something that they want because of the iLvl restrictions, everyone in the raid was able to roll need on the Conq Tier Tokens even if they werent Paladin, Priest, Warlock ....

There's a significant bug with Group Loot that posts like this have brought to light over the past day. On Leather and Mail armor, which has both Intellect and Agility, the presence of Intellect is incorrectly preventing Rogues and Hunters from rolling Need on those items. That's obviously unintended, and terrible. It shouldn't behave that way, and we're working towards a fix within the next day.

The Tier Token behavior you mention is also unintended - class restrictions should be respected. We'll investigate and fix if something is awry there.

No comment on the issue of iLvL restrictions preventing rolls? Or is that a working as intended with the intention being to really force PL on all situations and hope that altruism suddenly grows in the cesspit that is most of the playerbase?

Sorry, I should have mentioned that. We don't believe that is currently happening, and it's absolutely not intended. If an item is for your class, you should be able to roll Need on it regardless. If it is specifically for your spec, your roll should take priority over off-spec rolls. And if an item is not for your class (unequippable or intended for a role your class cannot perform, such as a rogue looking at a tank trinket ), then you should only be able to roll Greed/DE. There should be no other logic or restrictions on the system, and if you encounter any, we'd be very interested in hearing more.

The reports we've seen that seemed to blame player item level for inability to roll, thus far, were actually caused by the Rogue/Hunter issue I mentioned above.

Commenti

Commento di avatar1337

Commento di Nethergirl

I've always liked Khadgar, this proves everything I think of him! Even a snippet of his song! So goooooood <3

Commento di Maagi

on 2016-07-28T12:08:55-05:00

Amazing. 3rd. Comment.

Commento di necrotomma

on 2016-07-28T12:09:01-05:00

That was awesome! <3

Commento di Maximelene

on 2016-07-28T12:10:32-05:00

That short was amazing.

Commento di urielvazquez

on 2016-07-28T12:13:42-05:00

Hype.

Commento di adam99188

on 2016-07-28T13:07:18-05:00

Can't wait untill Illidan's short!

Commento di Renacion

on 2016-07-28T13:08:12-05:00

This might end the pretty $%^& wizard jokes. :o

Commento di Paredeslion

on 2016-07-28T13:14:03-05:00

Where is Me'dan the currently Guardian?

Commento di raikage

on 2016-07-28T13:18:09-05:00

Where is Me'dan the currently Guardian?

From the Legion summit: "Med'an is out adventuring in the universe, doing big important things that will one day come to fruition. He just isn't around right now."

Commento di Eventhia418

on 2016-07-28T13:22:57-05:00

That one gave me goosebumps

Commento di gobergin

on 2016-07-28T13:38:26-05:00

Anyone else notice Khadgar got older again after that fight?

Commento di karasudark

on 2016-07-28T13:38:31-05:00

Where is Me'dan the currently Guardian?

Blizzard hasn't said much about Med'an lately. It almost seems like they are slowly retcon-ing him out of things. For the most part, he was a 'Mary Sue' style character, able to do anything at any time to solve any problem. Almost precluding the need for other lore heroes, much less the player character heroes.

Commento di Ne0nguy

on 2016-07-28T14:19:58-05:00

I like these updates, but as someone that subscribes to the RSS feed, I wish these were broken up into 3 separate posts.

Commento di LazarusWolf

on 2016-07-28T14:27:58-05:00

We received a surprising number of reports from players that indicated they had somehow unknowingly activated “Action Cam.” For those who are unfamiliar, Action Cam is an experimental alternate form of camera control that is currently unfinished and not quite ready for the general public. It had become available through a console command in the Legion beta, but since it doesn’t give any unfair gameplay advantages and (so we thought) had to be expressly activated by the player, we’d left it accessible through that command.

However, it has become clear that more than a few players have somehow turned it on without knowing, and it’s a major cause of motion sickness for those players. So, we’re going to disable it entirely for now, and plan to bring it back in a future patch once we’ve sorted out all the motion sickness issues and given it a little bit more polish.

This is why we can't have nice things...

Commento di lovelywaz

on 2016-07-28T14:41:05-05:00

"If its NOT broken, DON'T fix it."Blizz need to remember this. Recent example of course being all this camera max zoom out issues.

Commento di Hathegkla

on 2016-07-28T15:51:05-05:00

I really hope we can disable that cam thing.

Commento di Zxore

on 2016-07-28T16:39:39-05:00

Wouldn't a fix to the motion sickness just be to put a box in the camera area of the interface that reverts it back to pre-pre patch camera. That way you don't ruin the cool new things for people like me and many others that are not getting motion sickness?

Commento di DaemoniaNZ

on 2016-07-28T16:49:34-05:00

Loving the Comic clips!

Commento di poorsap

on 2016-07-28T16:57:20-05:00

They remove most everyday options to be available only via console, and then, surprise-surprise, people start using console to access those hidden options. Who could've thought that console commands are easier to mess up than a "too complicated" on/off toggle.